Pierre Pericard
Bioinformatician
Lille, Hauts-de-France
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Top SchoolPierre Pericard is a bioinformatician and PhD-trained research engineer with 11 years of experience leading bioinformatics platforms and multidisciplinary teams in the Lille region. He co-directed the Bilille platform, managing teams of 6–12 engineers and delivering analyses for over 20 research labs across biology and health. His background blends algorithmic metagenomics research, hands-on pipeline and workflow development (Galaxy, Trinity, sequencing QC), and practical tooling in Perl, Python and Bash. Pierre has a strong academic foundation with a PhD in bioinformatics and earlier engineering and plant sciences degrees, giving him fluency across genomics, transcriptomics and computational method development. He is comfortable bridging research and service, from integrating metabolomics and HTS pipelines to training scientists in reproducible workflows. Less obvious: he pairs deep algorithmic experience with practical platform operations, making him equally effective at designing novel methods and running reliable, production-grade bioinformatics services.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree in Plant Bio-Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Master's degree in Plant Bio-Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology at AGRO Toulouse-Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse-ENSATPhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Metagenomics, Algorithmics, PhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Metagenomics, Algorithmics at Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Lille I)Preparatory Class to French Grandes Ecoles, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Preparatory Class to French Grandes Ecoles, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology at Cycle Préparatoire Polytechnique - INP ToulouseMaster's degree in BioInformatics, Computer science, Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Data-Mining, Master's degree in BioInformatics, Computer science, Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Data-Mining at Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (85)
package-management10
genomics10
nf-core10
nextflow10
pipeline10
rna-seq10
conda10
sequencing10
metagenomics10
assembly10
samtools10
bioinformatics10
bam9
bioconda9
fasta9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ppericard/bioinfo-toolkit
Jan 2016 - Apr 2020
A collection of useful scripts to analyse and format popular bioinformatic files, mainly dealing with NGS
Contributions:38 commits, 3 PRs, 55 pushes in 4 years 4 months
yoann-dufresne/ComponentSearch2
Feb 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years 2 months
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